The China Chronicles

I made cucumber salad the other day. Nothing exciting, just cucumbers, salt, pepper, and a little vinegar. It's your basic cucumber salad. I eat it frequently. Frequently enough that I have a pretty good idea of what it should taste like. I'm a cucumber connoisseur, if you will. Last night, I was eating cucumber salad and there was something that didn't taste...cucumber-y. It wasn't too much vinegar, which sometimes happens, and it wasn't too much salt, which is another potential hazard of cucumber salad. As a girl who eats a lot (ask my mother), I have quite a refined palate. So I chewed and chewed and chewed, and finally I was able to identify the flavor: soap. Apparently my rinsing skills could use some work. Mmm...Palmolive cucumbers...

posted by Sara @ 6:36 AM